Sustainability Tip of the Week
A simple wish for a better tomorrow
Use Reusable Water Bottles and Coffee Mugs
Instead of buying bottled water and contributing to the packaging consumption problem, buy a refillable bottle to carry around campus. Since we have about 12,000 students that adds up to a lot of bottles and cups. Refilling reusable bottles with the filtered water bottle filler is better water than you will get in a plastic purchased bottle.
Using a Water Dispenser Compared to single use plastic bottle
There are many little known facts about water bottles out there.
The bottles of water that you drink from use more than 17 million barrels of oil each year. This is enough oil to fuel 1.3 million cars in the same year. This does not include the oil that is needed to transport the bottles of water.
Energy that is used to make the bottled water can power 190,000 homes.
167 water bottles were used in the past year by the average person, only 38 of those were recycled.
More than 1 billion in water bottle plastic goes to landfills each year, even though the bottles are recyclable because only 23 percent of people that use them actually recycle them.
Tap water, when drunk at the recommended amount of eight glasses a day equals $0.49 per year, while drinking this amount of water from water bottles equals $1,400 each year. Save hundreds of dollars each year by purchasing a water bottle that is able to filter your water for you, so you do not have to purchase the expensive, bad for the environment water bottles.
This is wasting money and time and filling up the landfills with waste that doesn’t need to be there.
Consider making the switch, you might find free filtered water is better than single use plastic water bottles.
Faculty, staff and students please share your sustainable ideas for our weekly tip to j.coons@hvcc.edu.
A special thanks to the Hudson Valley Community College Public Safety officer who uses his muscles instead of electrons to open the automatic doors!
Published: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:05:28 +0000 by j.coons